Author: Ethel Sara Wolper
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ
Keywords: space, medieval, anatolia, urban, transformation, saints, sufism, cities
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 2003-12-02
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0271022566
ISBN-13: 9780271022567

In recent years, Sufism has become all but synonymous with the mystic poetry of Jala-l al-Din Ru-mi (d. 1273) and the ritual "whirling" of dervishes from Turkey. This branch of Islam does, however, have a long, complex history, and spiritual retreat was only one aspect of its significance. In medieval Anatolia, "Cities and Saints" contends, Sufis made alliances that gave dervish lodges powers so vast that they were able to alter the layout of cities and serve as the means of forging new social bonds. Through close examination of the design and function of medieval Sufi buildings in several Ana

Author: Jordana Mendelso
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ
Keywords: nation, refiguring, modernism, modern, culture, spain, artists, exhibition, documenting
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-08-26
List price: $65.95
ISBN-10: 0271024747
ISBN-13: 9780271024745

The news media have demonstrated the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a framework for the study of Spanish visual culture from 1929 to 1939.

Authors:Ascanio Condivi, Hellmut Wohl,
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: michelangelo, life
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0271018534
ISBN-13: 9780271018539

Ascanio Condivi, a young pupil of and assistant to Michelangelo, gained the trust and respect of the great artist. This is a reissued translation of Condivi’s account of Michelangelo’s life. The biography is based to a large extent on the artist’s own words, telling the story of his life, his relationship with his patrons, his objectives as an artist and his accomplishments. First published in 1976, this translation now includes a revised introduction based on research, as well as a bibliography and endnotes section.

Author: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: morality, roots
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0271033924
ISBN-13: 9780271033921

This book argues the case for a foundationalist ethics centrally based on an empirical understanding of human nature. For Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, ’an ethics formulated on the foundations of anything other than human nature, hence on anything other than an identification of pan-cultural human realities, lacks solid empirical moorings. It easily loses itself in isolated hypotheticals, reductionist scenarios, or theoretical abstractions - in the prisoner’s dilemma, selfish genes, dedicated brain modules, evolutionary altruism, or psychological egoism, for example - or it easily becom

Authors:Susan Bordo, Susan Bordo,
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: reading, canon, descartes, rene, interpretations, feminist
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0271018585
ISBN-13: 9780271018584

A re-reading of the Cartesian corpus from the multiple vantage points of contemporary feminism. It includes discussion of: the implications of Descartes’ epistemology for feminists and feminist epistemology; the implications of his metaphysics for social constructions of women; the historical context of his intellectual relations with women; and an exploration of reasons why his female critics have been so erased from the contemporary history of philosophy. The contributors to this volume are Susan Bordo, Stanley Clarke, Erica Harth, Leslie Heywood, Luce Irigaray, Genevieve Lloyd, Mario

Authors:John P. Robinson, Geoffrey Godbey,  Robert D.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Keywords: time, reading, canon, americans, ways, life, surprising
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0271019700
ISBN-13: 9780271019703

A study of the Americans’ leisure time, comparing the 1990s to the 1960s. The authors argue that, although many Americans feel increasingly rushed and stressed, they actually have more free time, which they waste in activities like TV. This edition is updated to include 1995-1997 data.

Author: Margaret Morto
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: house, glass
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-09-29
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0271024631
ISBN-13: 9780271024639

The young people, living in an abandoned glass factory in New York City’s East Village from 1992 to 1994, were nothing more than squatters in the eyes of police and city officials. But thirty-five inhabitants of the building took a radically different view of their situation. Homeless, unable or unwilling to return to their families, they formed a community with a strict set of rules and took up the hard work required to make the derelict factory into a home. They repaired stairs and roof joists with wood scavenged from construction sites and police barricades, tapped electricity from a